- Spring 2010
- Winter 2010
- Fall 2009
- Spring 2009
- Winter 2009
- Fall 2008
- Spring 2008
- Winter 2008
- Fall 2007
Theory, History and Development Seminar- Spring 2010
Social Science Plaza B Rm. 3266, 3:30pm-5:00pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
“Autonomy Freedom: Its Measurement and Policy Implications”
“A Political Economy Model of Road Pricing”
“Sequential versus Simultaneous Election Contests: An Experimental Study”
“An Empirical Analysis of Growth Regimes”
“Information Sharing in Contests”
“War and Relatedness”
“Preparing to Export”
“Did Ivan’s Vote Matter? The Political Economy of Local Democracy in Tsarist Russia” and “Financing Primary Education in Tsarist Russia”
“Catastrophic Risks”
“Tariffs and the Expansion of the American Pig Iron Industry, 1870-1940”
“Monopoly Regulation Under Incomplete Information: Prices vs. Quantities”
Theory, History and Development Seminar- Winter 2010
Social Science Plaza B Rm. 3266, 3:30pm-5:00pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
**Please note that this seminar is at Noon
“TBA”
“Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism”
“The Cyclicality of the Cost-Price Markup”
“Unemployment and Crime”
“The Costs of Economic Growth”
HOLIDAY
“Honor among Tax Havens”
“Inequality and Network Structure”
“TBA”
“Credit Expansion and Contraction in the Central Reserve City During the Great Depression: An Empirical Examination of Search Models of Credit Markets”
“Observable Strategies”
Theory, History and Development Seminar- Fall 2009
Social Science Plaza B Rm. 3266, 3:00pm-4:30pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
**Please note that this seminar is at Noon
“Fiscal Capacity and Economic Performance”
“Reputation for Quality”
“Rotten Kids With Bad Intentions”
“The Impact of U.S. Family Planning Programs: Evidence from the War on Poverty and Title X”
“Nash Bargaining Theory with Non-Convexity and Unique Solution”
“How Does Finance Generate Growth? Evidence from the First Industrial Revolution”
“Pollution Havens and the Trade in Toxic Chemicals: Evidence from U.S. Trade Flows”
“A Model of Civil War with the Risk of Death”
“Learning Self Control”
“A New History of Banking Panics in the United States, 1825-1929: Construction and Implications”
Theory, History and Development Seminar- Spring 2009
Social Science Plaza B Rm. 3266, 3:30pm-5:00pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
**Please note that this seminar is at Noon
“Why Leaving the Consumer Alone Helps to Close the Deal� A Theoretical Approach”
“The Shape of Temptation: Implication for the Financial Lives of the Poor”
“An extended Arrow's Theorem -- that applies to general economics, organizational design, physics, and even nano-technolgy”
“Self-Deception and Choice”(with Jawwad Noor)
“Network Competition with Local Network Externalities”(with Oystein Fjeldstad and Espen R. Moen)
“Trials, Tricks and Transparency: How Disclosure Rules Affect Clinical Knowledge”(with P. Gonz�lez and N. Porteiro)
“The War on Illegal Drug Production and Trafficking: An Economic Evaluation of Plan Colombia”(with Pascual Restrepo)
“Making Sense of the Manufacturing Belt: Determinants of U.S. Industrial Location, 1880-1920”(with Nicholas Crafts)
“A Global Perspective on Railway Efficiency and its Policy and Geographic Determinants, 1880-1912”
Theory, History and Development Seminar- Winter 2009
Social Science Plaza B Rm. 3266, 3:30pm-5:00pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
**Please note that this seminar is at Noon
“Exceptional Export Performance of Indian Firms: Disentangling Cause and Effect”
“What did you all day? Mother's Education and Child Effort”(w. Asim Khwaja and Jishnu Das)
“Conflict, Settlement, and the Shadow of the Future.”(w. Stergios Skaperdas)
“Can Offshoring Reduce Unemployment?”(w. Devashish Mitra)
“New Evidence on the Formation of Trade Policy Preferences”
“Dynamic Effects of Legal Origins: Evidence from the American States”
“All-Pay Auction Equilibria in Contests”
Theory, History and Development Seminar- Fall 2008
Social Science Plaza B Rm. 3266, 3:30pm-5:00pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
**Please note that this seminar is at Noon
“Guns-For-Slaves: The 18th Century British Slave Trade in Africa”
“Rating System Design: Transforming Individual Preferences to Rating Scores”
“The Demarcation of Land: Patterns and Economic Effects”
“Slack Labor Demand and Vacancy-Dependent Job Matching Process: Market Tightness and Matching Function Analysis for the Labor Markets in the United States, 1922-1933”
“Cyclical Wage Movements in Emerging Markets Compared to Developed Economies: the Role of Interest Rates”
“Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants”
“Testing Guilt Aversion”
“An Experimental Inquiry into the Origin of Property Rights”
“Legal Origin and Economic Growth”
Theory, History and Development Seminar- Spring 2008
Social Science Plaza B Rm. 3266, 3:30pm-5:00pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
**Please note that this seminar is at Noon
31 March
Ted Bergstrom (University of California, Santa Barbara)
“Altruism and the Bone Marrow Registry
”
Guillame Roger (University of Southern California)
“Media competition: a two-sided duopoly with costly differentiation”
Juan Carrillo (University of Southern California)
“The Compromise Game: Two-sided Adverse Selection in the Laboratory”
Greg Clark (University of California, Davis)
“Welfare Reform, 1834”
Mike McBride (University of California, Irvine)
“Position-specific Information in Social Networks: Are you Connected?”
Juan Vargas (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Commodity Price Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Colombia”(with Oeindrila Dube)
Sukkoo Kim (Washington University)
“Immigration, Industrial Revolution and Urban Growth in the United States, 1820-1920:
Factor Endowments, Technology and Geography”
Ichiro Obara (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Secret Contracts for Efficient Partnerships”
Costas Syropoulos (Drexel University)
“Trade Costs and Multimarket Collusion”
Jan Brueckner (University of California, Irvine)
“Slot-Based Approaches to Airport Congestion Management”
Theory, History and Development Seminar- Winter 2008
Social Science Plaza B Rm. 3266, 3:30pm-5:00pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
**Please note that this seminar is at Noon
10 March
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (Caltech)
“The Old Economics of Information and the Remarkable Persistence of Traditional Credit
Markets in France 1740-1899.”(with Philip T. Hoffman and Gilles Postel-Vinay)
Chris Chambers (Caltech)
“On Behavioral Complementarity and its Implications”
Theory, History, and Development Seminar- Fall 2007
Social Science Plaza B
Rm. 3266, 3:30pm-5:00pm*
(unless otherwise indicated)
**Please note that this seminar is at Noon
1 October**
Iris (Wan Ju) Franz (University of California, Irvine)
“Grade Inflation Under the Threat of Students' Nuisance: Game Theory and Empirical
Tests”
Avinash Dixit (Princeton University)
“Democracy, Autocracy, Bureaurcracy”
James Bono (University of California, Irvine)
“Coral Games and the Core of Cores”
Hao Jia (University of California, Irvine)
“An Empirical Study of Contest Success Functions: Evidence from the NBA”
Amer Aladhad (University of California, Irvine)
“Singularity Theory, Economic Equilibria, and Equity”
Hyeok Ki Min (University of California, Irvine)
“Contests for Trade Policy”
Aditya Chauhan (University of California, Irvine)
“Mafia versus Individual Criminals In The Presence of Law Enforcement”
Richard Arnott (University of California, Riverside)
“Downtown Parking in Auto City”(with John Rowse) and “Curbside Parking Time Limits”(Preliminary)
Vimal Kumar (University of California, Irvine)
“Production, Appropriation and the Dynamic Evolution of Property Rights”
Chiaki Moriguchi (Northwestern University)
“Child Adoption in the United States: Historical Trends and the Determinants of Adoption
Demand and Supply, 1951-2002”
Samarth Vaidya (Deakin University, Australia)
“Evidence Dispersion and Media Capture”
Jared Rubin (California State University, Fullerton)
“Inherent Hostility or Institutional Outcome?: An Econommic Theory of Inhibitive
Law Persistence in Islam and Christianity”
Seminar organized by Professor Stergios Skaperdas.